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Credited with transforming the mystery through the creation of her female private eye, V I Warshawski, Paretsky’s books are international best sellers, appearing in almost thirty languages.
News
Shell Game, the 19th V I Warshawski novel, will be available everywhere on October 16th.
All are welcome to join Sara as she receives the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for lifetime achievement on May 9 at 5 pm at the Newberry Library. A host of speakers, including Lori Rader Day, Ann Christophersen, Dominick Abel, Luis Alberto Urrea, Donna Seaman, Neil Harris, Heather Ash, and Margaret Kinsman, will give short tributes highlighting Sara’s myriad accomplishments.
Crime writers have a novel take on reducing gun violence: two dozen short stories of murder without guns. Sara wrote the introduction to Unloaded Vol. 2
If you’ve read any of the VI Warshawski books or stories, you know she travels the city up and down. Click here to see V I in action in this book trailer created by three young cineastes from the University of Chicago.
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January 13, 2019 // I replay my past with anguish over my failures – my biggest – my hot temper which bubbles over when I suffer a narcissistic wound. Every time it happened I was ashamed in the aftermath, vowed not to do it again. In time I learned some patience, some cooling off before reacting, but never enough. […]
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